Collection of short stories about loneliness, quick violence, and the wrong kinds of love
Wyoming Stories Series
This series delves into the rugged beauty of the American West, specifically the heart of Wyoming. The narratives capture the lives of individuals grappling with loneliness, swift violence, and often troubled relationships. The author masterfully portrays the complexities of the human spirit set against a landscape that is as harsh as it is magnificent. These are compelling tales of desperation, hard times, and unexpected elation.
Recommended Reading Order
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Bad Dirt - Wyoming Stores 2
- 219 pages
- 8 hours of reading
"The stories in Annie Proulx's new collection are peopled by characters who struggle with circumstances beyond their control in a kind of rural noir half-light. Trouble comes at them from unexpected angles, and they will themselves through it, hardheaded and resourceful. Bound by the land and by custom, they inhabit worlds that are often isolated, dangerous, and in Proulx's prose, vivid." In "What Kind of Furniture Would Jesus Pick?" rancher Gilbert Wolfscale, alienated from his sons, bewildered by his criminal ex-wife, gets shoved down his throat the fact that the old-style ranch life has gone. Several stories concern the eccentric denizens of Elk Tooth, a tiny hamlet where life revolves around three bars. Elk Toothers enter beard-growing contests, scrape together a living hauling hay, catch poachers in unorthodox ways. "Man Crawling Out of Trees" is about urban newcomers from the east and their discovery, too late, that one of them has violated the deepest ethics of the place. Above all, these stories are about the lives of rapidly disappearing rural Americans.
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Fine Just the Way It Is
- 240 pages
- 9 hours of reading
The fantastic new collection of stories from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Shipping News' and Brokeback Mountain'.
Brokeback Mountain, Film Tie-In
- 64 pages
- 3 hours of reading
The friendship between Ennis del Mar and Jack Twist, two cowboys, evolves into an intimate relationship while they are working together as a herder and camp tender, sharing a bond that spans many years and frequent separations.
